petition, but the main charge against the corporation rose to the top by mandating computer makers to install the Explorer browser if they want to install the Windows operating system, thus eliminating the competition in the browser market. In the summer of 2000, the federal courts did indeed find that the Microsoft, Corp. violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Although a federal appeals court last year vacated an order to break Microsoft into two separate firms, the appeals court unanimously upheld the lower court's findings that Microsoft broke the law (Bray). In Microsoft's defense, their spokesman Jim Deslaer claimed that Microsoft routinely attempted to work with AOL, the plaintiff of the suit in 2000, and claimed that AOL is u
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